skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would just like to point out that this is a highly subjective argument. The iPhone 5 might be too large for Dustin's hand, but I'm quite comfortable using a 4.3 or even 4.5 inch phone. I naturally hold phones with the bottom right corner in pushing the bottom of my hand like the second image on the page, and my hand quite naturally wraps a phone up to ~4.5". For me, emphasis me, any phone over 4.5 becomes a problem because my index finger will have a hard time hitting a power switch on the top right of the phone, but overall I'm able to reach any point of the screen with my thumb and small muscle movements in my hand. But again, this is all subjective to the size of my hand.
@aw3c2 - I think it all depends on how you personally define the music industry. In your mind, is the industry defined by the record labels or is it defined by the community of artists?
Narrative way of showing your CV, NarrativeCV?
Hi guys,

Recently I have been thinking about the narrative way to tell your work history or anything related in a narrative way. By this I don't mean, "I created a website, www.example.com" or "I worked for Some Inc. for some time." I am trying to get the way to tell plans, what you dealing with at the moment, your decisions, experiences under different categories etc.

Maybe the way right to do is a blog, but at first I considering a design that fits the idea. I am a professional designer or so. I just used existing resources to get the first draft. Hope to hear your ideas.

Here is the github page url: https://github.com/mertemin/narrative-cv
And this is the page I created for myself: www.mert.im
I'd argue that google is an ai company at heart, that just happens to make a fortune selling ads.
It is a spammer that takes HN comments and reposts them at Reddit. Someone should report that behaviour at http://www.reddit.com/r/reportthespammers
Perceptual Value (or Tapbots Is Being Opportunistic)
I don't think he would be so quick to say it's worth the extra screen space if he weren't left-handed. Reaching the back button with only your right hand, even on the 3.5" screen is difficult. After switching to an iPhone 4s earlier this year I found that to be the major failing of the device:
http://dmaurolizer.com/post/18478902007/ioss-major-flaw-reac...
TL;DR The arts used to be (like Mozart's time used to be) supported by wealthy patrons who commissioned works that were subsequently enjoyed by the public. The notion of music as a commodity to be consumed like sugar and paprika is a modern one, and, M Kim argues, a historical quirk whose time has passed. We should thus separate consumption from patronage, with the latter greatly enhanced by crowd-funding technology, e.g. Kickstarter. Artists should raise funds from crowds directly and then release their recorded music for free, with private perks accruing to the patrons.

My comments:

I like the structure, but am concerned about the separation of consumption and patronage. Our society has become far more consumerist since Victorian times and ignoring that cultural shift could be problematic. I propose fortifying crowdfunded patronage with a matching fund that would match crowd patronage dollars.

In college I was cheap and pirated music. Now I care more for convenience than a few dollars and so download my music via iTunes, where cover art, filing, and synchronising is taken care of. I suggest adding an optional (or maybe not) extra $1 (or whatever) to be directed into a matching fund. This fund would then match, at a ratio to be determined after further thought (would probably be a moving scale), crowd patronage dollars to artists. Thus, the consumption and patronage are joined somewhat.

One could still have free music for those who value dollars more than time. The downside is the iTunes of this analogy would be a power centre. That said, it would be naive to assume any such system wouldn't concentrate power. It might be good to have an iTunes figure opposing the Kickstarter one.
Post-mortem on HipChat's outage
Congratulations, gentlemen -- this looks fantastic.
> So say more about this : "I'd like to focus my attention on other ventures."

Yes, maintaining this on my own is trivially easy. Then you went on to describe hiring people, managing contracts, etc. etc. That is exactly what I _dont_ want to deal with. This isn't about money, this is about having short term capital to focus on something I'm truly passionate about (not this side business).

The fact is, while I still own this business, I'm still responsible for support and maintenance. It is trivially easy, but I don't want to do it.

For very interested parties, I'm making it very clear what the business is and doing my best to prove to them this is no scam, there is no "catch." I just want to work on my passion.

> So my advice to you on pricing a business is to ask this simple question, "What other choices does someone have which can get them this return at a comparable risk over this time frame? And at the end of the term how much value is 'left'?" That is the key to understanding what is a 'good' price vs an 'unreasonable' price for a business.

If they did nothing to this business, I'm confident it would continue to churn out the revenue it has been. That being said, I have many ideas to grow this business further, and I've been sharing them with interested parties.

Also, I'm only looking for a buyout of about 1 year of revenue, not 3x. Simple.
Continuous Delivery presentation
I think it all comes down to the client screening. If the service works as advertised and saves you significant time finding good clients, increases your rate because you have more worthwhile options to choose from and so can charge more, and/or gets you projects that are more interesting and fulfilling to work on, 10% is cheap. Tons of developers give up a much higher cut than that to work at agencies for those exact reasons.
Apparently there are two active rovers on Mars right now [1], both of which have an average speed of about 0.02mph [2,3]. I haven't checked out the geography of the situation but it's not looking promising.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rover_%28space_exploration%29#A...

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_rover#Design_and_co...

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_rover#Specifications
You can swipe right to get back in Music app and a few more apps. Apple also considered the use of the "Home" button for some "back" actions — back to home screen, back to a recent opened app.
Hey everyone, I'm in the middle of redesigning my start ups landing page to better illustrate what we do.
Being involved in it makes it difficult for me to determine how clear our message is.
So, a sentence or two on what you think we do would be a huge help.
Thanks, Guys Here's the page https://www.testmymarketing.com/
This is usually what I check if I think a site is down -- http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://dcurt.is/
You asked a clarifying question. The clients are the parents, persons born abroad and usually educated abroad through their undergraduate degrees. They arrived to the United States after being born abroad, so they are first-generation immigrants (as is my wife). The students are elementary-age pupils, typically born in the United States, whose parents seek supplementary mathematics lessons for the children when they observe how weak the mathematics instruction is even in schools in the United States that are in desirable school districts in one of the states of the United States with the highest level of academic achievement. There is a lot of "ceiling" above the best curriculum provided to bright students in United States schools that can only be reached with supplemental programs such as the one I have helped organize here (which is based on a program that originated in Michigan, among the Indo-American community there). Native-born American parents who are alumni of MIT and a variety of foreign-born parents have all recommended my program to their friends from various countries.

P.S. I used to use a book that was written in Russian (by Estonian authors before the break-up of the Soviet Union) and then translated into English as one of my course textbooks.

http://www.perpendicularpress.com/math6.html

The Russian mathematics textbooks are often very good indeed, and much more clear and more challenging than typical textbooks in the United States. You might find it interesting to read a link I learned about from another HN participant, "Word Problems in Russia and America," by Andrei Toom,

http://www.de.ufpe.br/~toom/travel/sweden05/WP-SWEDEN-NEW.pd...

which is full of interesting information about the differences in approach between mathematics lessons in Russia and mathematics lessons in most United States schools. The contrast between schools in China and the United States

http://www.ams.org/notices/199908/rev-howe.pdf

http://www.math.wisc.edu/~askey/ask-gian.pdf

or between those in Singapore and the United States

http://www.merga.net.au/documents/RP182006.pdf

are also food for thought.
Reid Hoffman is neither slim nor athletic looking. Focus on your product, market, and go to market strategy and you should be fine.
Founder of Kippt here. We also pull in links from favorited tweets (not all but should probably add that as well) but unlike Pinboard we don't save the actual tweet content, only links referenced in tweet. New API terms are a bit unsure and I'm interested to hear about Twitter's reply to Pinboard.
Point of correction, Dustin. Navigation Bars are top anchored in iOS. You might be thinking Tab Bars. As such, Tab Bars are being replaced increasingly with Dive Bars, the ones that live under the app, a la Facebook and Path. This makes the reaching problem worse because the common elements are in the top left. I suspect that we might see swipe-based gestures increasingly handle back button behavior and maybe a bottom oriented "under-menu" for placing compose and add elements.

Edit: Appears to have been corrected, but point still stands.
If you have 20 new people a day following you and 2-3 are trolls, I'd still do it. No troll is going to make me change my polite behavior with other people.
Only in the Webkit Inspector console, nowhere else. $ is also a shortcut (I forget for what though).

They're over-written by a page if that page defines that variable globally in some way.
"Even so, the benefits vastly outweigh the downsides." I found this a bit hypocritical. Why wasn't this the case for the Android phones in his "3.5 Inches" blog post? And as gfodor noted, this can only be worse for the iPhone, considering the location of the back button.
> This is a nice intro.

... with a misleading title since it's about "Prototypical inheritance".
To those who keep arguing whether the complains were valid. There is just one thing that makes it racist - referring to "culture fit" and then letting this guy go wasn't a "joke". This is discrimination.
Just ask Kim Dotcom.
Didn't know about the polling app that Google has. That's great.

Seems to me like Twitter still has a lot of opportunity for growth in the US, if these numbers are to be believed.
I have this little script running on cron on all of my servers https://gist.github.com/1870429
App Verifier just moves HeapAlloc allocations, but the C/C++ functions default to using these, so it grabs pretty much everything.

For game development I wrote a custom allocator that redirects all of our allocations to the Windows heap instead of using our custom allocator, in order to support App Verifier and xperf memory profiling.

It's not similar to valgrind. It's more like Electric Fence.
FTC strikes out against Social Engineering Hackers.
You keep saying that what I say is wrong but you do not explain why. So it's not like you are exposing a view on which someone can agree. And this is also the reason why you are being called a troll. Your comments were not an addition to the discussion but just a wall for an open mind.
I had surgery on my right wrist a number of years ago and I still don't have great flexibility in it. About 3 days after getting the iPhone 5 I started getting some pain in my wrist and was actually able to equate it to the odd reach down by my thumb to hit the home button. After being conscious of this, I started holding the phone a bit lower in my hand and the pain went away within a day and I haven't had it come back. It's definitely a little more difficult to reach spots on the phone, but I'm still torn on it cause I do like the bigger screen. I actually wish there was a button on the side of the phone that I could use as an alternate home button.
Building the App Center recommendation engine
Great job. I am probably biased since this is nearly exactly how I see things going (and want them to go) as well, but your explanation and the historical examples chosen make a great argument.

If you are demanding I take a shot then I have a nitpick: First paragraph has the Traditionalists, Incrementalists, Apologists, and Defeatists. What about the school of thought that the widespread ability to freely share music is inevitable and artists, as they always have, will find a way to make money because people love music? What school of thought are you and I in?

Do you think this model will turn the music industry into even more of a hits based business (like the app store model has done to software) or less of one?

I can see books moving to this model as well, but movies seem a bit more problematic unless budgets fall drastically.
I personally hate anything that "feels" like charity to the artist, I don't think that's sustainable. Even though I call this theoretical model "crowd patronage", I feel it would only work if the fan "feels" like he's getting more than some altruistic warm feelings of supporting something. They should also feel the real value of relationship access. Just the illusion of having a closer relationship to artist will only enhance the feeling of supporting the artist. But at a minimum, there must be that value back of some sort of relationship reciprocation. Does that make sense?
Does Twitter suggest an alternative username? Even if they do, the problem with Twitter growth is that nobody will follow a new user unless they know you in real life. I have the impression that for new users it's mostly s feed reader with ads and Foursquare checkins.
A concept see saw designed to seat 4
We just posted a developer FAQ hopefully answering a lot of the common questions asked here today.

https://matchist.com/developer-faq
This keeps your tests isolated and fast.

No, writing good tests keeps your test isolated and fast. Creating lots of mock objects distracts you from writing good tests, because what you're testing is your ability to 1) write mock objects that conform to the ad hoc interfaces you've produced and 2) maintain those mock objects when those ad hoc interfaces change.

If you want to know if your code works, you still have to test if it all works together.
The 1000 MPH Car Takes Step Towards Realization
that's good to know. another difference is that GT works with teams (correct me if I'm wrong) and matchist is currently one developer matching per project
Demonstrating the strength of the walled garden.
Mapping leads to directions leads to scanning leads to navigation leads to automated cars leads to autonomous bipeds.

And facebook is trying to do to social mapping what google is doing to world mapping.
I don't say anything of the sort. Please read again. I am saying that total global commerce and use of computers is greater than the software industry (not the world's greatest insight I know).

Don't want to answer for RMS. I can't think of less arbitrary way of achieving their aims.
Developer FAQ page is up for ya.

https://matchist.com/developer-faq
Awesome well thought out article. Agree on many points. Mike Masnick (of www.techdirt.com) has been blogging about very similar models for years now.

The fundamental point he gets at is that you want to 'Connect with Fans' more than anything. This is why people like Amanda Palmer, Trent Reznor and the Juggalos (oh my) have been so successful. People connect with their music and their persona.

The second part is to give those fans a 'Reason to Buy'. In your article you talked about things like close up access, neat events, and being added to the liner notes: these are all concrete reasons to buy.

That formula is sort of what you were hinting at.

Use the infinite goods (the smell of the food in your metaphor) to sell the finite goods.
Legal landscape gets tougher for blatant game clones
There is no more hardware back button on any recent android phone either and every time you rotate the screen it's in a different locations (and a different location if it's on landscape vs portrait on tablets vs phones.) It's widely inconstant on Android too. And what happens when you press also is not very consistant when what you are working isn't inherently stack based.

Also having different UI contentions doesn't mean someone else is doing something wrong. We port games from iOS to Android at Apportable (YC2011) so we deal with converting concepts every day. Neither is better or worse.
Perhaps, but that does not disprove the quoted claim.
I have long cited this one difference (the ubiquitous back button) as the tipping point that makes me consider Android feel more usable, on average, than iOS. I never considered that one reason I feel that way is because of the placement and reachability, but it makes sense. That's not the only reason, though; having "Back" handled by the OS allows a "back stack" and more seamless multitasking.
Two apps = two purchases.
I'm curious as to why numerous JS frameworks create DOM structure via string concatenation, or by putting markup in script tags. That's an automatic fail, in my books. No matter how interesting or useful a JS framework looks, I just can't get past the need to mix markup and code.
In the Mars trilogy (Red Mars/Green Mars/Blue Mars) by Kim Stanley Robinson, the term "areology" was coined for describing geology-on-Mars. I always thought that was a great word.
I can only wonder what copyright law might do to such a model. Would patronage allow one to play the artist's music in a public space without prior permission/consent? Think about all the recent political campaigns that used songs in such a manner. Also, I wonder if the patronage model would make it that much harder for an artist to sustain his/her career.
Ok so many listeners are susceptible to this, but why do moderators allow it to happen? The last few times I've seen a moderator say in effect that the person didn't answer the question, it forced the speaker into a laughably fake-sounding and obtuse defensive position and negated any value the pivot might have provided had it escaped notice. It was awesome and I wish it happened all the time.
Department snapshot:
It might not be hardware anymore, but there is still a ubiquitous back button. And depending on how you look at it, the rotation change could be a good thing - the intention is to keep the ubiquitous button set closest to where your hands will be resting.
Exactly: an iPhone 4 is to my girlfriend's hand nearly exactly as a Galaxy Note is to mine. The idea that people make these reachability arguments as if hand size is universal down to silly half-inch increments is downright insane.
hey freshhawk. first of all, I'm totally jealous of your handle. Second, I would say I'm not in any of those camps I define. I'm in the "crowd patronage" camp ;-).

I think music will always have hits and superstars, whether the gatekeeper is radio or internet. What we call "viral" today will be upgraded to how we think of "hit" today.

Overall though, I'm more excited about the "middle class" of musicians the new era of music industry can support. I personally think maintaining a profitable and real relationship with your fans will require a lot less overhead in the future. And, they can go direct to fan, which is beneficial for independent artists, imo.
I wrote an open-source customized replacement for Windows 7 USB AutoRun
I understand why AutoRun was removed for USB drives, but I trust my drive and wanted it to run start-up actions on my computers. I saw a few solutions out there that used AutoHotKey or other scripts to work around it, but I wanted to write something that fit my needs and that I could share with others.

Essentially, I was tired of launching my portable password database every time I sat down at my work or home computer, and wanted a way to have that happen automatically. It also lets me remove the drive using a keyboard shortcut, so that I can have it automatically close my password database and unmount the drive.

This is very much a beta, but I think it is something that I can share with others who might want the same functionality. I'm open to criticism, feedback, patches, adding features, etc. It doesn't have an installer yet, but it just requires .Net 4.5 and you can put it anywhere you like and add it to your Windows startup.

http://www.campkludge.org/?q=ignitionkey

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ignitionkey/
Because plants, of the leafy green variety, have a complex evolutionary history with lots of side trips (like lichen and mold and algae). Further earth based plants are based on the same basic DNA structure as earth based animals.

So while it is not "impossible" that an equivalent to plants evolved into exactly one species or micro-eco-system which exists in this one place on Mars, the chance that this occurred and didn't cause the whole planet to have evidence of their existence is really really small.

But don't let that discourage you from trying various plant hypotheses. The way to pursue that is to then try to figure out what things would be true if they were plants, and see if any of the data we have from Mars would allow you to get closer to proving or disproving your hypothesis. The last time I checked you could ask for and get the a copy of the raw data from JPL if you asked for it (well not some 'give me all your data' kind of ask, but "I'd like to get HiRise imagery from this part of the planet ...")
I think Google is a tech company that happens to be really good at ads (which is uses to fund all of its tech). Google didn't set out to sell advertising, it was just a way that they could continue solving big problems.

For example, I don't think Google is spending big dollars on automated cars to advance its advertising business.
It may not be worth the effort, but you can still get replacement parts for them. Or just go with a new Unicomp.
Well sure, the price of anything can change in the future. It's difficult to plan for that.

But as others have said, you get 25K free per day. It really depends how big your audience is as to whether it's "mostly" free.
I've never used Slashdot for even a moment, but I really enjoyed that article and I could really feel OPs pain as he let his baby go.
awesome, i've never heard of Mike Masnick (fail!), but he sounds like a smart man ;-). Thanks for the heads up, I'll probably be digging into his stuff pretty soon.
Song lyric translations are huge outside of english speaking countries. U.S. rock/pop is played all over the world and most people can sing some words of a well-known english song. The potential to reach an international audience is huge, given the current deplorable state of other lyric sites. Getting a literal translation doesn't really help with song lyrics given that it tends towards poetry.
Exactly. There is no one perfect phone as there is no one perfect glove.
"that experience" is referring to Mr. Hogan's experience being sued by someone who worked for him. So he's being asked whether experience with a particular lawsuit would affect his ability to be fair and impartial, not whether he's capable of being fair and impartial.
I'm almost certain prism is NOT open source, while the front end of Tropo is. Did something change in the last year?
Does no one remember what Johnnie Cochran taught us? "If the glove does not fit, you must acquit".

People have different sized hands - there's no such thing as a perfect sized phone.
If nothing else, the extra revenue can't hurt.